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Happy editing! HiLo48 (talk) 01:39, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan

I deleted your addition about Propylene,[1] but changed my mind about John Williams Reynolds—the redlink may be useful in the future. ATB.--AntientNestor (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

And so it was. Thanks for the prompt!--AntientNestor (talk) 14:27, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for a great article! Have you considered pitching it to Template talk:Did you know? 5.178.188.143 (talk) 20:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I did. One was along the along the lines of: DYK … JWR got a letter of admonition from the CinC , but later was made deputy Adjutant General? ALT1 was: discovered Propylene, but later made deputy…etc. I didn't take them forward because I didn't think they were "hooky" enough.--AntientNestor (talk) 21:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

What about something along the lines of "a conflict with superior led a British cavalry officer to take a break in his military career and discover propylene"? The combination of notability of the scandal and notability of the discovery is what makes his biography very unusual, and I personally was very surprized to find out that the discoverer was actually a cavalry officer (almost all chemists at that time, as opposed to 18th c., didn't have any other occupations but science and education) 5.178.188.143 (talk) 22:07, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I like that one a lot. If I do submit mine (full texts in my sandbox), and you add yours as ALT2, I'd support it!--AntientNestor (talk) 22:19, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

I added two variants, a shorter and a longer, to your sandbox. I release them and my comments here under CC-0, so feel free to remix and reuse 5.178.188.143 (talk) 11:30, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I will give this a shot, now that I have better hooks (i.e., yours). At the moment I'm struggling with my required quid pro quo reviews of other people's DYK, but I'll get ours (yours) in within the time limit.--AntientNestor (talk) 11:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@5.178.188.143: Thanks. I cut these back to just two, with the better one (yours) first, and submitted them. Thanks again.--AntientNestor (talk) 12:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Why did you remove the wikilink to Lord Cardigan? 5.178.188.143 (talk) 12:41, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

WP:DYK200 cautions against WP:SEAOFBLUE, but on second thoughts the hook has more weight with the link. You're right, and I'll put it back.--AntientNestor (talk) 12:51, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Third thoughts: I think (but I'm not sure) the restriction on hook length counts the characters so [[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan|Lord Cardigan]] would take us over the limit. Why not try an ALT2 and see if it works?--AntientNestor (talk) 13:03, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

If you read the rules carefully, they count prose characters, and prose characters don't include wikilinks 5.178.188.143 (talk) 22:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. AntientNestor (talk) 06:54, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

BTW, it would have to be "Lord Cardigan", not "a superior", because of WP:EASTER.--AntientNestor (talk) 07:07, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

User:HouseOfChange has approved our nomination of John Williams Reynolds for DYK. It's "good to go".--AntientNestor (talk) 11:10, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

December 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to History of perfume, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 10:52, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

May this source suffice? 5.178.188.143 (talk) 11:27, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for John Williams Reynolds

On 2 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Williams Reynolds, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a well-publicized conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover propylene? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/ John Williams Reynolds. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John Williams Reynolds), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

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